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great firewall of australia ’
The ongoing obsession with censorship by the Australian Government continues with two new targets coming into view: Facebook and game review sites.
The interest in Facebook comes after a number of tribute Facebook groups for killed kiddies were ...
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If you haven't seen our coverage before, the Australian Government is proposing to introduce Chinese style internet censorship on internet access in Australia.
Going into the last Australian Election, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) presented a policy of ...
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The news yesterday that the Australian Government has banned small breasts in adult content on the basis that they might look underage has been confirmed...sort of.
In response to Somebody Think of the Children, the Australian Censorship Board ...
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Any pretense from the Australian Government that its proposed internet filter will not extend to millions of sites has died with news that the Government has banned small breasts and female ejaculation in adult material.
The ban (RC) ...
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In one of its most cynical moves yet, the Australian Government will delay the implementation of Internet censorship until after the next Australian Election.
In a letter to an opponent of internet censorship, Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy ...
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I don't need to highlight the multiple posts here at The Inquisitr when it comes to my stance against Chinese style censorship in Australia; I'm a foundation member of the Pirate Parry in Australia despite previously swearing ...
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The Australian Government today confirmed that it would proceed with broadscale internet censorship in Australia following a trial into ISP based internet filtering.
Delivered pre-Christmas so as to minimize debate on the plan, Reichsminister for censorship Stephen Conroy ...
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The Australian Minister for Censorship has today confirmed what I've been reporting for nearly two years: online adult games including Second Life will be banned in Australia.
A spokesman for Censorship Minister Stephen "Goebbels" Conroy confirmed to Fairfax ...
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The Chinese Government has issued a decree that all computers sold in the country must include filtering software from July 1. The software will allow the Chinese Government to filter sites it deems inappropriate on each PC, ...
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The Australian Government for the first time since their election may be considering optional internet censorship, the original policy they were elected on.
Australian Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy today (Tuesday local time) told a Senate estimates committee ...
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Controversial Australian Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy is back in the news after mocking a company for not breaking the law.
Conroy, speaking at the CommsDay Summit in Sydney Tuesday, mocked ISP iiNet over its defense in court ...
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Wikileaks has upped the ante in its stoush with the Australia Government, warning that any attempts to find the source of the leaked censorship list would cause an international incident, and could see Australian Minister for censorship ...
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Recent action by the Australian Government may see Google and many other popular websites banned in Australia under existing censorship laws.
Under the Communications Legislation Amendment (Content Services) Act 2007 sites that link to content that is Refused ...
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The blacklist of web sites banned by the Australian Government has been leaked to pubic disclosure site Wikileaks.
The list details all sites "refused classification" in Australia that would be illegal to view in Australia, or as ...
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Despite saying previously that "unwanted" content would be included in the Great Firewall of Australia, Australian Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy had also claimed that the proposed Internet censorship regime was focused on blocking "illegal sites." Until ...
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As we've reported regularly over the last two days, Victoria, Australia has experienced the worst natural disaster in Australian history. As I type this post, the official death toll has risen to 130, with up to 200 ...
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Much has been written about the social cost of the proposed Australian Internet censorship regime, but far too little on the economic cost.
As the Rudd Government attempts to pass a $42 billion AUD stimulus package in an ...
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The Great Firewall of Australia, the Australian Government's Internet censorship scheme that is being sold as protecting children has resulted in significant budget cuts to a dedicated anti online child abuse police team.
$2.8 million AUD ($1.86m USD) ...
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Germany has announced that it will introduce compulsory Internet censorship starting in March.
The censorship scheme will block access to child pornography, and will follow a similar model to Norway, where the Government decrees a list of child ...
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As the debate around the proposed Great Firewall of Australia censorship scheme in Australia continues, the Government's long awaited censorship trial is due to begin shortly.
While some ISP's are participating only to prove that the filter is ...
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